Above the Fold
PRE-ORDER: Issue 3: The Art of the Dumpling
Issue 3 pre-orders (and any other orders that include issue 3) will ship in early-to-mid July*. Pre-orders/direct sales are available for US-based orders only. Once Issue 3 is in-hand, it will be available for sale in Canada, the UK, and Europe through Antenne Books—likely by late July.
"Because if dumplings existed only for the absorption of nutrients and calories, numerous cultural practitioners wouldn’t have honed their skills over centuries to hand-tweeze them into flowers and birds or press them into hand-carved wooden molds, transmuting them into glistening tortoise shells," says this issue's welcome note.
"They wouldn’t carefully pleat them into plump, braided teardrops, stain them deliberately with saffron and beet juice and butterfly pea flower, or insist that they must be made so tiny as to fit 40 on a single spoon." All of these dumplings, and so many more, warrant examination, and celebration. And that's exactly what this issue is all about.
- On-location reporting that spotlights dumpling producers in Curitiba, Brazil, and Fuzhou, China
- A 16-page "art gallery in print" showcasing the work, and artist statements, of dumpling-makers based in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Estonia, Mexico, Japan, and more.
- Examinations of the intersections between dumplings and performance art, social practice art, and sculpture
- First-person essays exploring dumplings in the afterlife, preserving kueh-making in Taiwan, and the manti newspaper that circulated at the 2022 Istanbul Biennial
- Elaborately crafted ravioli and Royal Thai dumplings
- And so much more!
*When selecting your shipping options at checkout, disregard the target arrival dates since these will not ship until we have copies in-hand from the printer. Orders will ship in early-to-mid July.
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